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Nexstar is long overdue for some new packages. While all of their stations up to Media General (sans WAVY) have switched to their packages, there's still a few former Tribune stations with their packages floating around. The only recent package that's halfway decent is the one WXIN has. The others are getting stale. When WFNA launched their 9pm news in 2016, they used the "Triangle" Media General package that was introduced on WNCN for their relaunch pre-CBS. It lasted until WKRG picked up the current CBS package in 2018 and unified all newscasts under the WKRG brand. I wish they would do some more in Youngstown with WYFX's newscasts. They've been unified under the WKBN branding since their Nexstar launch as well.

I don’t know. I turned it on at 5 and thought it was the wrong station due to ads.

The Chevron strike-down has hit the FCC's decisions; by a 6-3 party-line vote today, the Supreme Court ruled that lower courts can now decide cases without FCC input (link from my employer with their view; here's another view from Broadband Breakfast). This was about the FCC declaring that online junk faxes didn't need to comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the case they ruled on now goes back to the 9th Circuit), and though I'm not law-versed by any means (and I would appreciate more clarity), this seems like a major shift for the FCC's rulemaking process well beyond telecoms where their word is now not exactly set in stone.

I imagine Cowles has de facto right of first refusal when Marks's heirs finally decide to sell KYUS....as does Scripps with KXGN.

Yeah they were using tight shots in front of a smaller video wall. The news and weather reports shared the video wall. Some tech issue in the main studio I guess.

I think that part of the issue here is that the graphics package is meh. Even Media General's flat package looked better than this. The green doesn't work and the color is more sunset peach which works well as a highlight complimenting golds, blues and white, but not as a primary. Combined with the green, it's reminiscent of watermelon.

Were they ok at 4?

Is something going on with News 4 NY studio tonight? The 5 pm show started about 5 min late after several commercials. It was mostly Gilma delivering her script over video and the sound was off. When Gilma was finally on, it was a close in shot that looked more from the newsroom with the background than the actual set. Halfway through the Combs story report, the sound cleared up, including when it was thrown back to Gilma. We'll see if they are in the studio once they are back from more commercials but something definitely seemed off.

France 4 has refreshed its on screen identity.

Here's an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia.... KYUS once had a formal agreement to relay KULR but it expired many years ago. Stephen Marks basically had a handshake agreement to continue relaying their signal solely as a public service with no expectation of payment. I wonder in this day and age how NBC feels about this? For Miles City, it's part of KULR's market area but is still 150 miles away, making it as a repeater with virtually no contour overlap. As long as his heirs keep the station running, there's no telling how much longer this could go.

Not since Congress let the legislation authorizing such lapse in 2020. (The channels remain available to those who already had them at that time.)

For some weird reason, KNBC has the time on their 11:00 PM news on Saturday night, but not the rest of the week. I’ve never understood why.

Miles City is 75 miles away from Glendive, but still almost 150 miles from Billings. It's also twice the size of Glendive. It seems like KYUS should be rolled into the existing Glendive market and made the focal point of it. Whatever becomes of KYUS would then feed KXGN. It's currently a brokered feed of Cowles' KULR, and other broadcasters could broker the subchannels to feed this area. But given the remoteness of the area, it should have happened years ago and current conditions wouldn't warrant undergoing such a transformation. Regarding the satellite services, Glendive appears to be the ONLY DMA to have never started local feeds on DirecTV. Does DirecTV still offer the NY/LA stations for remote areas of the country like this?

They can definitely do the concerts in that atrium space they filmed Live with Kelly and Mark the first week they moved to Hudson Square.

Spain.

Which country? Even if I knew every country's flag by heart, that icon is tiny.

The full half-hour special devoted to Mr. England aired last night on KWTV. R.I.P. Gary.

They maintained that living room look in the early Times Square years (screenshots from 2001 and 2003) but yes that faded as time went on. Really liked that set.

To clarify things, Mid-Rivers Communications serves Glendive, but appears to have discontinued video service.

Just for fun, I checked to see how far Spokane is from Glendive. Using KXGN's building as the Glendive end, Spokane is about 595 miles away, or about the same distance as Duluth, Omaha, a point 15 miles north of Pueblo, CO, and over halfway up into Saskatchewan. You could draw a straight line from Glendive through downtown Minneapolis and not hit 595 miles till you're just over the river in Wisconsin. So, yeah, Spokane is just a bit too far from Glendive.

I would have added this to the original KOIN thread, but it's been locked. So here we are in 2025 and WKRG has once again separated the branding of their CW newscast as "Gulf Coast CW News" Being a Nexstar CW O&O, I personally think the color palette is hideous. They should have never dumped the green for the orange. But that's all Nexstar's doing for their attempts to make CW "America's most watched network with programming for everyone" I wonder if this is going to be a trend for any of Nexstar's CW stations that are on and operated with other affiliates.... On the bright side, I don't think we'll ever be seeing this on stations like WPIX, KTLA or WGN...

Two things to cover... That's it for Bob Brackeen. After a 35+-year career in TV, with a good chunk at KTEN, he is retiring and today is his last day. https://www.facebook.com/mandybaileywx/posts/bobs-last-day-at-kten-he-is-retiring-after-35-years-in-tv-congratulations/1236556987842109/ After 11 years at WINK, and 8 on the morning show, Lindsey Sablan will be leaving the station tomorrow with Taylor Petras taking her place. https://www.facebook.com/CoreyLazarwinknews/posts/yes-it-is-true-my-partner-in-crime-lindsey-sablan-wink-is-heading-out-and-leavin/1159502542648614/

NBC going away at the end of 2024 was probably the end of their affiliation agreement, and due to the pending wind down of the station operations, dumping NBC was a way to cut costs because of the reverse compensation agreements most network affiliates have. This does beg the question to what the television situation is outside of KXGN. Glendive technically doesn't have an NBC affiliate anymore or even a de facto affiliate as well. Glendive doesn't even appear have a cable company, and DirecTV doesn't even provide local stations for its viewers. Dish supplements KXGN with KOTA (ABC), KEVN (FOX) and no NBC affiliate since KXGN pulled the plug. YouTube TV fills in the gaps with WMAQ out of Chicago, KHMT out of Billings for FOX and a straight ABC feed in Pacific time with ABC News live filling in the gaps. There's still KYUS in Miles City, basically a repeater of Cowles' KULR. It's in the Billings market so adapting it to serve the Glendive audience is still a challenge. I wonder if that would be part of the sale of KXGN since these are the only remaining parts of Stephen Marks' TV station group.

Also the WBKB deal to MMM was sorely needed as the news department basically had everyone who should just be behind the scenes writing, anchoring, newsgathering and doing tech work on-set. The staff was overwhelmed and the Sinclair deal, though certainly not the best, allows them to just focus on reporting news and send off the video to Traverse City to be edited into broadcasts. It has not been shut down, just pushed to a more manageable level for a market like Alpena. Same with WBUP/WBKP/WJMN. Any result there was better than either closing a station or just selling out to spectrum speculators like Innovate/HC2 whose 'commitment' to local service is basically 'does the antenna work and will we get paid to air FAST channel offal to nobody'. KXGN doesn't have that burden now, and is basically a free agent. They could choose to be merged into their existing Scripps MTN network (the Cowles deal for news out of Spokane is just absurd), or decide to go closer and be merged into one of the three North Dakota networks, be it KX/Nextar, KFYR/Gray or Forum/KBMY.

KXGN no longer produces local programming. TV Passport shows airings of “The Noon News,” “The 5:30 News,” and “The 10:00 News,” which are from KTVQ in Billings. So, MM can’t really sink it anymore.